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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Greetings from the Intermountain GIS Conference Committee,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">This is a reminder that the</span> Montana Association of Geographic Information Professionals (MAGIP) would like to invite y<span style="color:black">ou
</span>to participate <span style="color:black">in/attend</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>the <span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://magip.org/Intermountain">2012 Intermountain GIS Users’ Conference</a></span> to be
<span style="color:black">held at the Red Lion Hotel in</span> Kalispell, MT, April 16<sup>th</sup> – 20<sup>th</sup>, 2012.
<span style="color:black">The conference will include workshops, presentations and poster tracks, featured speakers, an awards banquet and a public night – all designed to increase your GIS Knowledge.</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:black">Our current tracks include: </span>Tribal GIS, Societal GIS, MSDI, Local Government, Education, Health, Natural Resources, Mobile Applications, Utilities and Services, and more!<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Th</span>e
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://magip.org/IntermountainPapers">Call for Papers & Posters</a></span><span style="color:black">
</span>is out. The deadline for paper submission is February 1<sup>st</sup>, 2012, so get your abstract in today!<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:black">Also, please see the conference website for the <a href="http://magip.org/IntermountainWorkshops">
Call for Workshops.</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Lastly, we</span> are offering Special Interest Groups (i.e. metadata, local government, hydrography, etc.) a room at the conference facility in which
to conduct meetings in. Please contact Lee <span style="color:black">Macholz at</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><a href="mailto:magip.mt@gmail.com">magip.mt@gmail.com</a> by February 15<sup>th</sup>, 2012 if you would like to hold a meeting so we can be sure to reserve a room for you.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> We look forward to hearing from you!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#5F497A">__________________________</span><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#5F497A">Mindy Cochran</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#5F497A">GIS Program Manager</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#5F497A">Flathead County, Montana</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#5F497A"><a href="tel:%28406%29%20758-2401" target="_blank">(406) 758-2401</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5F497A">websites: </span><a href="http://maps.flathead.mt.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://maps.flathead.mt.gov</span></a><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#5F497A"> </span><a href="http://flathead.mt.gov/gis" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://flathead.mt.gov/gis</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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